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811.
by dedward 16y ago
I think he's assuming you are attaching the scale with the middle of the connecting-cable as the mass to be weighted and then pulling upwards on it..... which would make his description correct for that problem - but that's not the puzzle p
812.
by dedward 16y ago
I think that's reading a bit too much one-directionality into it. While true, it's the amount of force that's at issue here - not the direction. If a second 2kg weight were added to the "anchor" end of the spring balance - it would eithe
813.
by dedward 16y ago
You don't know whether it is or isn't his decision to make - that would be between him and his employers. He may very well have the discretion to bend the rules a bit for the right kind of people to keep the place popular - wealthy people w
814.
by dedward 16y ago
No - it would be a gamble. Immoral, and possibly a fireable offence, would be if your employee actually gave them a better deal in exchange for the kickback - in which case you, as their employer, can deal with them as you see fit.
815.
by dedward 16y ago
Should have been discussed and put in writing when the terms of employment changed to remote work - a whole bunch of things change in terms of taxes, liability, etc. If you genuinely value the employee, and genuinely want to keep them, and
816.
by dedward 16y ago
It knows that I signed into your site. That's one too many things I want facebook to know - it's not their business. So I'd say yes- subjectively, I would not sign up for any site that required me to use my facebook credentials logged in
817.
by dedward 16y ago
Why not work with him to build an automated deployment system? Get the group to think a bit bigger - consider deployment (and possible rollback) a function that is an integral part of the overall system. Get the sysadmin working on syste
818.
by dedward 16y ago
Developers should never have system level access. They should never be able to meddle with the core infrastructure their code runs on. This has nothing, however, to do with who should be able to publish new code to the website (we're talkin
819.
by dedward 16y ago
"But now suppose that I have a single machine with a single IP address hosting multiple virtual servers, and I want to replicate this setup for each virtual server, i.e. I want each virtual server to have its own instantiation of the custom
820.
by dedward 16y ago
Whether or not you choose to call it a "mistake" and how you handle it depends entirely on the business model, image, product, customers, etc.... A recurring service that is purchased, where you priced things too high and saw prices drop of
821.
by dedward 16y ago
Yup. The confusion, I think, comes from talk of sonic booms always being discussed along with mentioning an aircraft passing the sound barrier, going supersonic, whatever... There is, I believe, a sudden change in aerodynamics when an air
822.
by dedward 16y ago
One benefit of kernel on kernel virtualization is system calls can be optimized straight through, reducing context switching - better than a hypervisor with custom drivers. I'm not sure that's what is going on here with KVM - but the princi
823.
by dedward 16y ago
Rule #1 of negotiation - once you accept, you don't have regrets. For all he knew at the time, either company could have disappeared at any time. You make your decisions based on your willingness to accept something in exchange for your p
824.
by dedward 16y ago
Keep in mind what the market looked like at the time - it was nothing whatsoever like today. The field was so new there were no ground rules. It was the wild west. Either party could have also paid him nothing, hired someone else to do it,
825.
by dedward 16y ago
Did they have fax machines at the time?
826.
by dedward 16y ago
Yeah.... the guy who made that rediculous statement failed miserably.... no idea how to run a software company at all. I could tell when he came out of this superyacht moored out in the ocean and camped out next to us reading a book in the
827.
by dedward 16y ago
Times were different back then. The market was nothing whatsoever like it is today. The context of this was for applications microsoft was writing for the mac, not for operating system development... and the fact that he had insider knowl
828.
by dedward 16y ago
The only way they can fight back is to invalidate the patent or prove it doesn't apply to their situation. And "patent trolls" tend to collect and file tons of almost meaninglessly broad patents and hten send armies of analysts and lawyers
829.
by dedward 16y ago
It's obvious why - nobody said patents were "fair". The patent holder has his own discretion. He's not suing microsoft because he'd be shooting himself in the foot. He might have a deal with them to license it, or he may just be letting i
830.
by dedward 16y ago
disclaimer- I'm against software patents in general. However, in this case, to argue against my own opinions: The research and resultant patents in this case were in the public record for all to see, read, and if they found the idea useable
831.
by dedward 16y ago
Flights from central america to europe often have connecting flights in the US - and, unlike Canada and most of the rest of the world, the US requires people to pass through US Customs & Immigration to change airplanes. In the rest of t
832.
by dedward 16y ago
If you are in the right place at the right time, and willing to live there, that can work..... Not everyone can handle that, though - people are unlikely in general to be able to treat their home impassionately as an investment. The key is
833.
by dedward 16y ago
I think a good read of "Rich dad, poor dad" would do many good on the philosophy end of things. His point is to define "rich" as having your assets (which he defines as investments that produce income) produce enough income to cover your e
834.
by dedward 16y ago
THe key point in there is "long term" .... as in youth to retirement... .and that fit the lifestyle of people who are old retired bankers now. It's still true - real-estate, by it's nature, is probably a good long-term investment when compa
835.
by dedward 16y ago
TCP was designed to assume that packet loss was due to contention... so if you have random or other non-contention-related packet loss, your sessions will slow to a crawl. In this case multiplexing might make things worse than separate ses
836.
by dedward 16y ago
Yes - some people make absurd amounts of F-U money from affiliate deals.
837.
by dedward 16y ago
You could get by on that in a "nice" latin american country.. but it won't go as far as you think.
838.
by dedward 16y ago
Defining "rich" as a fixed amount is silly - define "Rich" as "all your time is your own, and the passive income you make on the side is enough to cover your expenses, whatever they are".
839.
by dedward 16y ago
Bingo.... you aren't as important as your cellphone makes you feel. I have my funky cool blackberry - but I leave it on "Phone only", and, because I rarely ever answer it, hardly anyone ever phones me. I also have no problem ignoring it if
840.
by dedward 16y ago
This depends on whether you are buying for investment reasons or other reasons. We buy plenty of things for non-ivestnemtn reasons - a house COULD be one of those things, depending on your situation.

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